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You may have seen a dark blue vintage van parked next to XH558 during our Airside Tours and Engine Ground Runs. ...
28 July 2023
Roll Out 7
A fresh appeal was launched in March 2004 to reach the Trust’s commitment of 29% of the funding total, required befor...
Vulcan Restoration
In 1993 XH558 became the last Vulcan to leave RAF service, after a career of 33 years. At around 10am on the 23rd Mar...
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Header image: RAF Waddington 1982 | Engineers and flight crew with the Vulcan prior to deployment to Ascension Island...
23 June 2022
XM607
No. 27 Squadron flew the last Scampton Vulcan Sortie on the 31st March 1982, disbandment day, and handed over the mar...
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2022 is the 40th Anniversary of The Falklands Conflict and the audacious Black Buck missions carried out by the Royal...
26 May 2022
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On 2 April 1982, Argentina invaded and occupied the Falkland Islands. It was the beginning of a ten-week conflict tha...
24 March 2022
Roy Chadwick
With the dawning of the atomic age in August 1945, it was obvious to military strategists that any future bomber to d...
25 November 2021
XM607 and XM598 at Wideawake airfield on Ascension Island before Black Buck 1
Operation Black Buck was a series of seven ambitious long-distance ground-attack missions conducted by the Royal Air ...
4 November 2020